Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Tom Smyth, owner of Dream Apartments, has donated £12,000 to the Children’s Cancer Unit Charity at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Belfast, during 2019.

Reading Time: 2 minutesFrance: Aparthotels Adagio has announced several recent openings and new signings, including the Adagio Aparthotel Lille Centre Grand Place, Aparthotel Adagio Paris Nation, and new properties in Germany.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Homelike has added 15,000 furnished apartments for corporate travellers staying for a month or more in the UK since launching in the country a year ago.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: The Collective has announced it is developing a property in Williamsburg, its sixth project in the US and fourth in New York City.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: A preview of the 2020 Global Serviced Apartments Industry Report (GSAIR) has shown that global inventory has risen by 14.75 per cent since June 2018.

Reading Time: 2 minutesFinland: SOULMADE Helsinki, a “sustainable culture club concept” will open in Töölö in 2021.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNetherlands: Cycas Hospitality has appointed a new chief financial officer (CFO) and added three further positions in its finance leadership team.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: A proposal to build a 31-key aparthotel on the site of a former school in Ilford has been submitted to Redbridge Council.

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe UK serviced apartment and wider hospitality sector has broadly welcomed last night’s election result, seeing it as the end of a long period of limbo in which the country’s political direction was shrouded in uncertainty.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Black And White Hospitality Management has taken over the operation of the Hy Hotel in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire.